Monument record MDO2470 - Golden Cap, Bronze Age bowl barrow, Stanton St Gabriel

One of five mounds on Golden Cap, possible Bronze Age round barrow. The mound is visible as a bare earth feature on aerial photographs taken in 1948.

Mound, probably a bowl barrow, about 200 yards NE of another group of mounds. It is 40 feet in diameter by 3 1/2 feet high. <1>

Probable round barrow surmounted by OS trig pillar. It is partially grass-covered with a stone content exposed. There is no ditch. <2>

SY 40739220. Bowl barrow 14 paces diameter by 3 ft high. <3>

One of five Bronze Age round barrows on Golden Cap. The barrow is visible as a bare earth feature on aerial photographs taken in 1948 <5>. The site was digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset).

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 223-4 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(5) MOUNDS, probably the remains of bowl barrows, on Golden Cap, over ¼ m. S.E. of the old chapel, are five in number. Four form a group at the S.W. end of the hill-top and the fifth is about 200 yards to the N.E. The dimensions are as follows—(a) 25 ft. diam. and 1 ft. high; (b) 40 ft. diam. and 3½ ft. high; (c) 39 ft. diam. and 3½ ft. high; (d) on the cliff edge, 34 ft. diam. and 2½ ft. high; (e) 40 ft. diam. and 3½ ft. high. All have been much disturbed and denuded.'

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 17-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 131 (Monograph). SDO132.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 40729220) Tumulus (NR)

<5> Royal Air Force, 07-MAY-1948, RAF 541/7 3117-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12955.

<6> Channel Coastal Observatory, 23-MAR-2008, Lidar (Photograph). SDO12878.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450240 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 7 2024 2:22PM